Emotional Quotes

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.

I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

I'm really, really emotional.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'